Informações:
Sinopse
A podcast about your 10th grade reading list, hosted by John McCoy.
Episódios
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138: Great Expectations
20/01/2023 Duração: 01h02minI have good feelings about this one! Zach Powers returns to discuss desparate criminals and mysterious benefactors in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations (1861). John McCoy with Zach Powers.
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137: A Christmas Carol
24/12/2022 Duração: 31minThere are many podcasts from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited. John and Marina discuss Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol (1843). John McCoy with Marina McCoy.
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136: Stuart Little
07/12/2022 Duração: 57minThis is one weird mouse book. Phil Gonzales and John discuss E. B. White’s Stuart Little(1945). John McCoy with Phil Gonzales.
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135: Thanksgiving Special: The Wreck of the Hesperus
24/11/2022 Duração: 18minIt’s Thanksgiving, so of course Rob, John, and Dan drink and discuss “The Wreck of the Hesperus” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1842). John McCoy with Rob McCoy and Dan McCoy.
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134: Macbeth
13/11/2022 Duração: 48minProbably best not to listen to this episode while you’re in a theatre. Shannon Campe and John discuss Shakespeare’s Macbeth (1605-ish). John McCoy with Shannon Campe.
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133: The Picture of Dorian Gray
06/10/2022 Duração: 53minThe podcasts that the world calls immoral are podcasts that show the world its own shame. Tamar Avishai and John discuss Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1831). John McCoy with Tamar Avishai.
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132: The Canterbury Tales
25/09/2022 Duração: 51minThose smale foweles maken melodye got nothin’ on us: Kathy Campbell and John discuss Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (c. 1400). John McCoy with Kathy Campbell.
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131: Beowulf
28/08/2022 Duração: 50minThe original Farewell to Arms. Nathan Alderman discusses Beowulf (c. 1000). John McCoy with Nathan Alderman.
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130: Epic of Gilgamesh
29/07/2022 Duração: 01h12minGilgamesh, a king, at Uruk. It’s not just a Star Trek meme. Gregory Fried talks ritual sex, heavenly bulls, and sneaky snakes in the Epic of Gilgamesh. John McCoy with Gregory Fried.
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129: The Metamorphosis
24/06/2022 Duração: 39minGregor’s mother warned him about days like this. Jason Snell discusses Franz Kafka’s inescapable novella, The Metamorphosis (1915). John McCoy.
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128: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street
17/05/2022 Duração: 01h39sAudrey Lazaro discusses Mellville’s 1853 story, “Bartleby the Scrivener,” one of the top three bits of scrivener fiction ever. John McCoy with Audrey Lazaro.
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127: The Egypt Game
15/04/2022 Duração: 55minNo, I won’t make a Bangles joke. Erin Gambrill discusses Zilpha Keatley Snyder’s The Egypt Game (1967). John McCoy with Erin Gambrill.
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126: Bambi, a Life in the Woods
28/03/2022 Duração: 44minBambi’s not so cute in this gritty new reboot. Glenn Fleishman discusses Felix Salten’s 1923 parable about what goes on in the woods. Also we talk a lot about copyright. John McCoy with Glenn Fleishman.
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125: At the Mountains of Madness
01/03/2022 Duração: 01h14minClimb ev’ry mountain—except these mountains, they’re nuts. Phil Gonzales discusses H.P. Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness,” written in 1931 and published in 1936. John McCoy with Phil Gonzales.
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124: Under Milk Wood
04/02/2022 Duração: 52minTo begin at the beginning: David Loehr is back in the slow, black, crowblack, podcast-bobbing sea to discuss Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood (1954). John McCoy with David J. Loehr.
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123: The Bell Jar
01/01/2022 Duração: 43minNew Year’s is a time for optimism, but instead Christy Admiraal discusses Sylvia Plath’s 1963 roman à clef, the Bell Jar. Also, John totally gets the dates wrong for this book’s complicated publishing history. John McCoy with Christy Admiraal.
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122: Christmas Special: Gift of the Magi
24/12/2021 Duração: 21minBut I sold my Zune to buy you this podcast! Marina and John discuss hair, watches, and O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.” John McCoy with Marina McCoy.
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121: Thanksgiving Special: Burma-Shave
25/11/2021 Duração: 39minIt’s turkey time / once again / Dan and Rob / dive right in / we discuss / Buma-Shave! John McCoy with Dan McCoy and Rob McCoy.
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120: Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
16/11/2021 Duração: 46minLet your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a podcast, for example, where Bill O’Donnell discusses Jerome K. Jerome’s very silly Three Men in a Boat (1889). John McCoy with Bill O'Donnell.
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119: Peter Pan
11/10/2021 Duração: 01h12minGrab on to your happy thought and join Shannon Campe in discussing James Barrie’s complicated children’s novel Peter Pan (1911), originally called Peter and Wendy. John McCoy with Shannon Campe.